Forests as Nature-Based Solutions: Ecosystem Services, Multiple Benefits and Trade-Offs

Salvatori, Elisabetta; Pallante, Giacomo

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“…ES topics have been studied in diverse ways, mostly focusing on specific perspectives, e.g., ES trade-offs and synergies reviewed under a landscape lens (Castro et al, 2014;Tomscha and Gergel, 2016;Grass et al, 2020), market-based approaches (Royal, 2021), nature-based solutions (Salvatori and Pallante, 2021;Ma et al, 2022), particular aspects of approaches (Zheng et al, 2019), or methods (Baiqiu et al, 2019). Some mention ES tradeoffs in a specific biome, e.g., for peatland (Saarikoski et al, 2019), boreal forests (Chen et al, 2016), tropical forests (Naime et al, 2020), dryland ecosystems (Yu et al, 2021a), or biodiversity hotspots/regions (Chisholm, 2010;Maes et al, 2012;Maass et al, 2016;Girardello et al, 2019).…”

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Trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem services for sustainability

Vodden²,

Wu³

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Resour. Manag.

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Trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem services for sustainability

Vodden²,

Wu³

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Resour. Manag.

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“…Considering that nature has multiple functions, NbS in the forest sector provides not only a GHG emission reduction function, but also diverse benefits. NbS in the forest sector is closely connected to diverse sectors such as climate change mitigation, sustainable agriculture, and urban and peri-urban forests [14]. NbS has advantages in that one action can bring a large number of positive benefits due to the complexity and multiple functions of natural environments [15,16], and in particular, such benefits can be expected in the forest sector [17][18][19].…”

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Analysis of Nature-Based Solutions Research Trends and Integrated Means of Implementation in Climate Change

Choi,

Kim,

Chae

et al. 2023

Atmosphere

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Nature-based solutions (NbS) is an approach to solving climate change and social issues based on nature. Despite NbS being widely studied as an effective method to solve social problems, the trends in NbS research have hardly been analyzed. Therefore, this study examined change patterns in NbS-related research topics over time and analyzed the interactions of NbS research and relevant activities in various fields. After reviewing research papers based on the search term ‘nature-based solutions’ on Scopus, and collecting 1567 research papers, we conducted dynamic topic modeling (DTM) and network analysis. The papers were classified into 19 topics via DTM. Water, forest, and urban topics made up the greatest portion of NbS research, while NbS topics in the forest sector showed a steady increase over time. This study also found close connections between NbS studies on forests and other sectors and confirmed that the forest sector can become an integrated means of contributing to climate change responses and other resultant social issues. This study demonstrates that DTM and network analysis are useful tools for understanding the trends in NbS research and finding the linkages between various fields.

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Trading off nature for nature‐based solutions: The bioeconomics of forest management for wildlife, timber, and carbon

Ury,

Kotchen,

Schmitz

2024

Ecosphere

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Nature‐based solutions are attracting interest for their potential to enlist ecological processes as cost‐effective and safe ways to capture and store carbon in forest ecosystems. Such solutions often need to be implemented in landscapes in which there are longer established values for other ecosystem services including wildlife and timber production. Here we develop an integrative model that illustrates the inherent trade‐offs that will arise among the competing values for landscape space and how to resolve them. The analysis characterizes boreal forest ecosystem dynamics involving interactions among the main trophic compartments of an intact boreal ecosystem, aka “nature.” The model accounts for carbon accumulation via biomass growth of forest trees (timber), carbon loss due to controls from moose herbivory that varies with moose population density (hunting), and soil carbon inputs and release, which together determine the carbon sink strength of the ecosystem. We link the ecological dynamics with an economic analysis by assigning a price to carbon stored within the intact boreal forest ecosystem. We then weigh these carbon impacts against the economic benefits of timber production and hunting across a range of moose population densities. Combined, this carbon‐bioeconomic program calculates the total ecosystem benefit of a modeled boreal forest system, providing a framework for examining how different forest harvest and moose densities influence the achievement of carbon storage targets, under different levels of carbon pricing. The analysis shows that promoting nature‐based solutions merely for carbon storage may result in loss of a key part of “nature” via loss of the trophic structure and key functional controls in the ecosystem.

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Forests as Nature-Based Solutions: Ecosystem Services, Multiple Benefits and Trade-Offs

Abstract: Forest ecosystems, including natural forests, managed forests, agroforestry systems, and urban and peri-urban forests, can be considered as multifunctional Nature-based Solutions (NbS) since they deliver key ecosystem services to people [...]

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Trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem services for sustainability

Trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem services for sustainability

Analysis of Nature-Based Solutions Research Trends and Integrated Means of Implementation in Climate Change

Trading off nature for nature‐based solutions: The bioeconomics of forest management for wildlife, timber, and carbon

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